That’s understandable. They have all the time in the world to complete this masterpiece, and we’re not going to rush them.

It is good that bashiok clarified this as since WWI that misinterpretation of the quote from Rob pardo has turned into so-called fact.

I think they must be spending so much time doing that… Putting out fires as it were. I mean, people interpret anything they say the way they want it, and lots of fans are very sensitive to webpages overhyping the topic.

Not really pissed on webpages doing it a little bit, but people taking things in without thinking is slightly annoying…

It’s amazing how much Blizzard have to watch their words.  They need to be absolutely precise and it’s almost mandatory that they add a disclaimer after everything they say.

It’s no wonder they always look so anxious and wary when you talk with them, they’re scared of inadvertantly letting a secret slip.  Or wind, body language isn’t my forte.

the question is really about: how much do you think the have accomplished so far? sounds like they have some sort of “dummy” for each class at least, like the news say, and detailed plans, with lots of textures done for act 1. remember D2, they sure reused a lot of textures with alternate colours, and that cathedral in LA was pretty detailed from the pics and video…

It’s wierd how just reading a few hundred developer diaries and interviews will give you a bit of a better insight, but it’s true!

Plough through the Media Coverage, and you’ll find that you understand the process better. They might have a few mobths more work than they show, but it might just be that X class is missing ALL it’s shoulder pads, even if it has 20 skills done, so they show another class that *looks* more done, to give a better impression. Then they spend X weeks before an event like BlizzCon and polish the stuff they do have so it looks brilliant, and show it, even if that’s all they have at that level. they don’t want to show the char class that is 99% done, but has a fugly face…

They might be almost done with all classes, but they are not ploished enough with textures and animations to be of Blizzard quality, so we’ll see them later. I suspect a press event sometime after X-mas, similar to SC2 last March and WotLK last May, when they will send Flux (and maybe Elly) there to try the fourth class and give raving reviews. Wait and see

BUT I WANT IT NOW!!!!!!!!!

I’m beginning to think they unveiled D3 a bit prematurely. It’s been a long time since we’ve got any updates, and now they’re saying they aren’t even as far along as we’ve previously thought.
Maybe they should have waited for 2009.

Didn’t Jay Wilson himself say that most people had moved on working on Act 2? Of course he also said they will do several iterations on the acts to get them really good. But it’s been my understanding that they have Act 1 basically done, and are now working hard on Act 2.

Also, in an interview it was said that Blizzard typically want to announce a game 1-1.5 years before it gets released. Seems they announced Diablo 3 too early if they now want to emphasize that Diablo 3 is ways off.

i know you think that it is all not ready and be out like sometime in next millenium, but really hard part of any gaming is actually codding and game engine, modelling taking less time to polish it all up.

i know this cause i have very trusted source of info about this.

as long as all coding done, modeling could take couple of months, and that’s it, buu yaaah, game on sale